Raph has the sais, Mikey has the nunchucks, Leo has the katanas, Donny has his bo staff, and Casey is armed with his traditional Hoseiken Seiko weapon.

The turtles were dubbed in cantonese by the 4 members of Beyond, a legendary pop rock band in Hong Kong. Mikey saying ‘真的爱你’ (I really love you) to April on the TV is a reference to a popular song from the band.

I'm with Chinese April on this one, we need a Kamen Rider and Ghostbuster crossover to put an end to crime.

I love how quintessentially "Kung-Fu Movie" the dialogue is in this version. Very little of this dialogue would be out of place in a Jackie Chan or Stephen Chow movie.

‘Ai-pao’ might just be a literal rendition of the Chinese phonetic spelling of ‘April’.

I am from Hong Kong and the guys who did the voice for the Turtles, especially in Turtles 2 was voiced by the 4 member boyband "Beyond" (sadly the lead singer died from an accident in 1993 so now they are only 3), they are still active to this day, singing. The Turtles and other character in the movie was voiced by different person than the cartoon version, in my opinion, the cartoon version had better voice artist, while the movie version was dubbed by personalities from Radio drama shows who really didn't suits the characters.

Also interesting note which was not written in the translation but you have to hear what they say, The Chinese names for the Turtles are totally different than the one we hear. Instead of Italian painters, they are named after flowers. For Leonardo his name is basically Blue Angel, Raphael Red Bean, Michaelangelo is Orange and Donatello is Grape.
Anyways the name in the translation might sound "Chinese" but the translator is basically translation their English name in Chinese sounding name and then when the translator write the text basically write it in Phonetic Sound... for Example April name in Chinese sounds like "Ai Pao" since we Cantonese don't have the "R" in the phonetic sound. This is why it looks weird in the text why April name is called "Pao"



Anyways most of the stuff they dubbed in this  TMNT movie use alot of jokes and pun in Cantonese which for none Cantonese will not understand (Cantonese is a dialect in South of China, around Guangzhou area, while Mandarin is the main dialect), even then not many outside of Guangzhou will understand Cantonese humour.

Seeing how different movies are dubbed really shows how hard dubbing can be. It's an art form in itself. Just a few word changes can completely change a scene.

These videos on weird, obscure Turtles stuff are always a treat.

Wick: "You're majesty. I've created a spell that turns all the home media formats into VCDs."
Dragonlord: "Brilliant. Then they'll have to use our streaming service DRAGONLORD +."

“Hoseiken Seiko” are considered the Stradivarius of the baseball bats

"Shit." ~ Donatell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Cantonese version, 1990)

We HAVE TO make The Hoseiken Seiko a special martial arts joke move Michelangelo does at some point...

I wonder what the Chinese translation for Skipping Stones would sound like? 🤔

Every time I think Phelan has talked about every possible TMNT edit, he manages to pull an even more obscure one from the ether.

If you want a truly batshit Chinese translation of a Hollywood movie, I recommend Star Wars: The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West.

The Chinese version almost like somebody coming up to you and wanting to sell you a Rulex watch⌚⌚⌚

28:09 yes because the first kanji in his name means "oni" in Japanese but "ghost" in Chinese

These deep dives are the stuff of kings, I tell ya! And I can confirm, Kamen Rider (or Masked Rider) is very popular in China, HK especially.

I love the Rabbit hole that is Phelous' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles home media format collection.

I find the spelling of Jose Canseco to Hoseiken Seiko the most amusing. If you were a huge fan of American Baseball at the time regardless what part of the globe you were from you knew who he was and how to properly spell his name.
The name change just makes him sound like he went from baseball player to fighting game final boss.